Discover the breathtaking beauty of Spain’s Picos de Europa, where jagged limestone peaks soar above lush valleys, ancient beech and oak forests, and dramatic gorges carved deep into the earth. Highlights include classic valley rambles, exhilarating gorge traverses, and rewarding ascents to panoramic summits, revealing the Covadonga lakes, the awe-inspiring Cares Gorge, and a mosaic of traditional villages and pristine mountain wilderness.Ideal for walkers of all a...

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is one manifestation of the changing role of English in the world today. This book and audio links explore how ELF may be relevant to teaching your students pronunciation. It draws on the Lingua Franca core, a set of pronunciation features that research has found to be essential to intelligibility in ELF communications, and explores how adopting an ELF approach can benefit students. It covers techniques and materials for teaching ELF pronunciation, includin...

Into the Classroom is a series of short, practical guides that help teachers who work in the primary and secondary school setting to make sense of new teaching tools, techniques, and educational policy, with ideas for implementing them in the classroom. Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World provides teachers with strategies and practical pronunciation ideas to help students aiming for international intelligibility or a native speaker accent. Explains the importance of focusing ...

He Put Me in To Bring Me Out is an authentic and riveting account of a journey of faith through trial to triumph. A transparent glimpse into the fear the pain and all the emotions that come with being told " you have cancer". Descriptively written with notes of reflective humor, this book is a must read for those facing this difficult and life changing event. You'll be inspired to persevere in the face of this formidable foe.About the AuthorRobin Walker Shanks is an ordaine...

" Il marche, Walker. C'est son nom et sa nature. " Jeune soldat canadien de retour des champs de bataille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Walker s'installe à New York en 1946. Hanté par la violence des combats, il peine à trouver sa place dans une Amérique où l'argent et la corruption règnent désormais en maîtres. Il se lance alors dans une odyssée qui le conduit à San Francisco puis Los Angeles, tente de gagner sa vie en travaillant dans la presse et côtoie le monde du cinéma et du film no...

Four all-new hot tales of yore, by the queens of erotic fiction.USA Today bestselling author Robin Schone shares a tale of a man and a woman in a notorious club, who learn how very dangerous desires of the flesh can be. Claudia Dain heats up this collection with the story of two voyeuristic young courtesans who might just take part in a very public seduction at the theatre. Allyson James has a card-playing...

The fiftieth-anniversary edition of Margaret Walker’s bestselling classic with a foreword by Nikki GiovanniJubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South’s antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction.Weaving her own family’s oral history with thirty years of research, Margaret Walker’s novel brings the everyday experiences of slave...

Duck Prints Press presents 22 delightfully fluffy, happy, odd, snug, and cozy stories about queer characters pursuing academic excellence! From field research shenanigans to cooking adventures, from space station education departments to eldritch libraries, creators brought their vivid imaginings to life in these charming fantasy and science fiction stories. Settle into your favorite research carrel or prepare to read on the sly under your desk as you join us for Scholarly Pursuits: A Quee...

The tale of Robin Hood, a mischievous rabble-rouser who made it his mission in life to redistribute wealth by stealing from the rich and lavishing the booty on impoverished people, has been a part of the popular imagination for centuries. This rollicking version was first published in 1891 and introduces many of the elements of the story that we're familiar with today, including a more detailed look at some of the members of Robin's crew of henchmen.

EVERY age, every race, has its leaders and heroes. There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted its notable men. The names and deeds of some of these men will live in American history, yet in the true sense they are unknown, because misunderstood. I should like to present some of the greatest chiefs of modern times in the light of the native character and ideals, believing that the American people will gladly do them tardy justice.

Micah Jeager's life is a mess. His folks have split, and now he lives with his mother in the manager's unit of a motel. His mother is seeing a medium to communicate with Micah's older brother, killed in Afghanistan. He had to change schools for his junior year, which made him retreat further into himself, hiding behind his camera—and hiding that he's gay.One sunny day in June, as he's shooting a dead seagull on the shore of Long Island Sound, a mysterious guy appears in a beautiful...

Duck Prints Press presents 22 delightfully fluffy, happy, odd, snug, and cozy stories about queer characters pursuing academic excellence! From field research shenanigans to cooking adventures, from space station education departments to eldritch libraries, creators brought their vivid imaginings to life in these charming fantasy and science fiction stories. Settle into your favorite research carrel or prepare to read on the sly under your desk as you join us for Scholarly Pursuits: A Quee...